June 11, 2013

KSS Fuels and Petrolview Announce Partnership

Companies will collaborate to deliver data and modelling services across Europe

Manchester, UK - June 11, 2013

KSS Fuels is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic partnership with Petrolview BV of The Netherlands. The two companies will combine comprehensive service station and fuel price data from Petrolview with KSS Fuels Location Intelligence analytical services and performance forecasting. The combined offerings will help fuel and convenience retailers to optimize their networks of service stations, set achievable performance goals and identify the actions needed to meet them.

Petrolview regularly surveys nine (9) major European countries, collecting service station attributes and other operational information and makes it available via web-based query and reporting tools. They also collect fuel price data in a form readily accessible by fuel pricing systems, helping fuel retailers react faster to market price changes.

KSS Fuels Location Intelligence suite comprises a range of modelling and performance forecasting services designed to give retailers unique, quantitative insights into the performance dynamics of their own and competitor outlets. The suite includes the ability to forecast potential sales of new outlets based on their location, allowing retailers to pick the best locations for new builds.

“This partnership will strengthen our ability to offer fuel and convenience retailers high value-adding services that will increase their financial returns. It fits perfectly with our goal of enabling clients to apply retail-specific analytics to their data to help them better understand their customers and competitors, and as a result to identify more profitable strategies”, stated Bob Stein, president and CEO of KSS Fuels.

“Petrolview and KSS Fuels make good partners with highly complementary products and services. And our respective track records delivering to European clients is a solid basis on which we can create new high value solutions”, stated Erik de Kok, director of Petrolview.

ABOUT KALIBRATE TECHNOLOGIESKalibrate (formerly KSS Fuels) is the only global provider of fuels pricing and retail location intelligence, helping retailers fine-tune decisions to deliver on performance goals. Its proven software, analytics and consulting solutions draw on more than 20 years of expertise and insight into the needs and opportunities of petroleum retailers. Kalibrate has headquarters in Manchester, United Kingdom and Florham Park, New Jersey. The company also has a Center of Excellence in Tulsa, Oklahoma and sales operations in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Canada, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea and Africa. For more information about Kalibrate, please visit Kalibrate.com.